sdileonardi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Center for Digital Studies at Pitt-Greensburg (he/him)
Every day I wake up and cognitively map like my subjectivity depends on it.
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Talked about Lorena Bobbitt for two weeks easy. Literally nothing else came up
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Many congrats- love the cover!
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Idk but I agree clearly Highsmith wasn’t shirking her commitment to her craft
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It’s too bad though. Both women were at work on their first novel, each of which turned out to be fantastic: Strangers on a Train and Wise Blood
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O never mentions H directly. But her comment, that “in such a place you have to expect them all to sleep around,” targets H who had not one but two romantic flings that summer, often staying out all night at the one local bar. O complained that her cohort didn’t take the goal of writing seriously
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Highsmith saw O’Connor as a fanatic, that one day she claimed to see an image of Christ in the wooden grain of Yaddo’s porch. “Ever since then I’ve not liked that woman.”
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I think when we started they were 11 and 12. I was trying to think of earlier examples, but we mostly avoided sitcoms when they were younger
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Watching Home Improvement was considered ‘quality family time’
And yes, Parks and Rec has been a particular favorite with my kids
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Omg thanks. I didn’t even think to go check the Driscoll/Squires piece
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Even better. In that case, I hope one of them takes it and runs with it. There’s lots of room for development
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Oh cool- a plus then is it should be pretty student friendly. Much shorter than usual academic pieces
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Awesome- it’s for a special issue of Studies in the Novel
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Oh to dialectically resolve the inherent contradictions of what’s in the inbox
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Ok cool so I <did> write this morning
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The long arc of the multi volume story is ST slowly ceding any claim to his humanity, which accelerates his abilities as he realizes he is a modest but powerful component in the networked organism called planet earth. Also he goes to hell for a while which is pretty rad
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Thanks these are all great. The Barth seems dead on. Haven’t thought about reification so much but I like the idea
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I’m planning on focusing on public writing for our capstone for majors and I need to work on the syllabus and you just … skeeted it out. Many thanks
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Definitely didn’t forget Auerbach!
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A repeated name here- I clearly need to get more familiar with his work. Thank you!
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No that’s perfect. I’d forgotten that quote but you’re right, it’s part of a pretty widespread idea that the holocaust in particular is unrepresentable and a problem for art in general. Thank you